5 Things You Need to Know Before Talking to Your Kids About the Ebola Outbreak

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ebola symptoms include:

• Fever (greater than 38.6°C or 101.5°F)
• Severe headache
• Muscle pain
• Weakness
• Diarrhea
• Vomiting
• Abdominal (stomach) pain
• Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)

But symptoms are not immediately evident. They may appear anywhere from two to 21 days after exposure.

Right now there is no vaccine (or shot) that can cure or prevent Ebola. There is medicine that is called "supportive therapy" that appears to be helping patients who have the virus. The US government is working on the development of a vaccine that is working on animals right now, but they don't know if it will work on humans.